Ornamental tree farm saplings take root across state

One thousand trees planted in plastic pots outside the Polunsky Unit in Livingston will spend three splendid years there being watered, fertilized, pruned and pampered in every way. But they won’t put down permanent roots until they are on home soil. And that could be at any TDCJ prison unit across the state.

Former prison building to become focal point for homeowners

For 30 years a stately structure in Sugar Land once known as “Central Two Camp” housed hundreds of TDCJ offenders. But soon, it is to become a focal point for thousands of homeowners living in a community being developed on 2,000 acres of former penitentiary property.